Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse, 1973)
Lee (Bruce Lee) is a Shaolin martial artist from Hong Kong who possesses great philosophical insight into martial arts as well as physical prowess. He receives an invitation to a martial arts competition on an island organised by the mysterious Mr. Han (Shih Kien). Lee learns from his Sifu (teacher) that Han was also once a Shaolin student, but had been expelled from their order for abusing their code of conduct. Han is suspected to be involved in drug trafficking and prostitution. He also runs a martial arts school to protect his drug operations, as well as holding his tournament every three years to recruit international talent to expand his criminal business. Before leaving, Lee learns from his teacher that Han's bodyguard O'Hara (Robert Wall) had been involved in the death of his sister, Su Lin.2013-07-16
2013-07-09
Mulholland Drive
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
In this brilliant and unsettling film from master director David Lynch we discover a cornerstone in the history of Cinema just like Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon or his 2001: A Space Odyssey and more recently, Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life. This is the work of an auteur that has let himself express pure feelings without really getting into the details of narratives and conventional storytelling grammar. Those personal films have done so much to the media while getting some head scratchers to their viewers. In the same time, those are works of pure unpolished diamonds of directors that knows their audience is wise enough to put the pieces of the puzzles together and digest the mass of images, movements, feelings, and sounds that their work has to offer. It might not be as clear and readable as, let’s say, P.T. Anderson’s masterpiece There Will Be Blood but it is as bold and rich in meanings.
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
In this brilliant and unsettling film from master director David Lynch we discover a cornerstone in the history of Cinema just like Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon or his 2001: A Space Odyssey and more recently, Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life. This is the work of an auteur that has let himself express pure feelings without really getting into the details of narratives and conventional storytelling grammar. Those personal films have done so much to the media while getting some head scratchers to their viewers. In the same time, those are works of pure unpolished diamonds of directors that knows their audience is wise enough to put the pieces of the puzzles together and digest the mass of images, movements, feelings, and sounds that their work has to offer. It might not be as clear and readable as, let’s say, P.T. Anderson’s masterpiece There Will Be Blood but it is as bold and rich in meanings.
2013-07-04
The Movie Suggestion of the Day – 4th of July 2013
This is a not so daily feature that presents in a few lines a movie and why I choose it to be the movie viewing of the day.
All my life the 4th of July was my father’s birthday and since I’m Canadian I can’t relate to much of the national day of Americans. However, I will always remember going to the theaters on this day to watch Independence Day with my father and my brother. It was the day the movie was released and I also remember the Theatre where we sat to watch it which is now a shopping mall now.
What do you think of this suggestion? Did I forgot another movie that would be perfectly suited for this day?
2013-07-03
The Movie Suggestion of the Day – July 3rd 2013
This is a not so daily feature that presents in a few lines a movie and why I choose it to be the movie viewing of the day.
As many readers know my hometown is Québec City and today July 3rd we celebrate our 405th Anniversary.
The movie of the day is Alfred Hitchcock’s I Confess entirely shot in my city and displaying some of the most beautiful features. I think it is a superb publicity for our enchanting and very European settings.
What do you think of this suggestion? Did I forgot another movie that would be perfectly suited for this day?
Cry-Baby
Cry-Baby (John Waters, 1990)
Earlier this year I made a promess to myself and my readers that I would tackle a list of directors that I’ve never seen a movie they directed. This list includes many great and recognized names : from Maurice Pialat to Ermano Olmi and from Russ Meyer to Glauber Rocha. One of the names on this list that intrigued me the most was John Waters. From his thrash counter culture films of the 1970’s and 1980’s starring the transsexual Divine to his more mainstream pieces like Hairspray and Cry-Baby. At first, I knew it was a Grease parody and a tribute to the teenage exploitation films of the 1950’s. It is also a pastiche of Elvis Prestley movies. After reading these lines one could easily put the label kitsch here. Well, one cannot be more right. It is a film that is not taken itself too seriously while involving a great laugh and a good fun. So it is far from being high-brow and not that far to low-brow. However, it is not as trashy as his Pink Flamingos where scenes of hardcore sex and feces eating are presented.
2013-07-02
The Movie Suggestion of the Day - July 1st
This is a not so daily feature that presents in a few lines a movie and why I choose it to be the movie viewing of the day.
What do you think of this suggestion? Did I forgot another movie that would be perfectly suited for this day?
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